Journal articles about the town
The downloadable articles below are included because they may be difficult to locate elsewhere online.
HISTORY
Bearman, Robert (2007) The Early Reformation Experience in a Warwickshire Market Town: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1530-1580. Midland History, 32(1), 68-109.
Bingham, Peregrine and Jardine, David (1833) Report on the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon. Reports from Commissioners on Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, HMSO, pp.117-122.
Bloom, J. Harvey (1915) Medieval Stratford, A topographical essay. Herald Office, Stratford upon Avon, 24pp.
Eggington, Richard (2013) Stratford's Reluctant Charities: The Story of the Guild and College Estates. Stratford Town Trust, 56pp.
Halliwell-Phillipps, James O. (1883) Memoranda on the Present State of the Birth-place Trust. Herald Office, Brighton, 16pp.
Hodgson, Arthur (1876) Clopton and the Cloptons. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: First Series, 32(2), 238-242.
Hughes, Ann (1994) Religion and Society in Stratford upon Avon, 1619-1638. Midland History, 19(1), 58-84.
Hurstfield, Joel (1964) Elizabethan England in the year of Shakespeare's birth. History Today, 14(2), 79-87.
Jaggard, William (1914) Stratford-upon-Avon from a Student's Standpoint. Shakespeare Press, 4 Sheep Street, Stratford, 8pp.
Martin, J.M. (1982) A Warwickshire Market Town in Adversity: Stratford-upon-Avon in the 16th and 17th centuries. Midland History, 7(1), 26-41.
Rahtz, P. (1970) A possible Saxon palace near Stratford-upon-Avon. Antiquity, 44(174), 137-143.
Rolt, L.T.C. (1964) The Stratford-on-Avon Canal Restored. Country Life, July 9, 86-88.
Ward Perkins, J.B. (1940) Two early linch-pins, from Kings Langley and from Tiddington. The Antiquaries Journal, XX(3), 358-367.
Wellstood, Frederick C. (1920) Rambles among the Old Records of Stratford-upon-Avon. Lecture to the Shakespeare Club, reprinted from the Stratford Herald.
Williams, Gwyn (1955) Welshmen in Shakespeare's Stratford. Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorian, 31-59.
Winterburn, John (1984) History of St Andrew's Parish Shottery. Duplicated typescript, 60pp.
BUILDINGS
Bearman, Robert (2000) Stratford's Fires of 1594 and 1595 Revisited. Midland History, 25(1) , 180-190.
Corelli, Marie (1904) The Threatened Vandalism at Stratford-on-Avon. The Tatler, Issue 171, October 5, p.11 and Issue 172, October 12, p.47
Fox, Levi (1952) Some New Sidelights on Stratford-upon-Avon's Medieval Guild Buildings. Trans. Birmingham Archaeological Soc., LXX, 48-59.
Gomme, Andor (1964) The Townscape of Tourism. The Architectural Review, 5 August, 113-118.
Lloyd, Terence H. (1961) Some Aspects of the Building Industry in Medieval Stratford-upon-Avon. Dugdale Society Occasional Paper No. 14.
Porter, Stephen (1976) Fires in Stratford-upon-Avon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Warwickshire History, 3(3), 97-105.
Tipping, H. Avray (1927) A Shakespearean Inn. Country Life, Dec 17, 930-931.
CHURCH and CHAPEL
Brailsford, William (1882) The Clopton Monuments at Stratford-on-Avon. The Antiquary, Vol. 5, 206-208.
Britton, John (1836) Architectural Essay on the Church and Chancel of Stratford-on-Avon. The Analyst, Vol. 4, 266-270.
Knowles, E.H. (1854) An Architectural Account of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity. Appendix in Neil, S., The Home of Shakespeare Described (Warwick: H.T. Cooke, 1862) pp.75-80.
Mooney, Linne R. (2000) Verses upon Death and other Wall Paintings surviving in the Guild Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon. J. Early Book Society, Vol. 3, 182-190.
Puddephat, Wilfrid (1958) The Mural Paintings of the Dance of Death in the Guild Chapel of Stratford-upon-Avon. Trans. Birmingham Archaeological Society, Vol. 76, 29-35.
SHAKESPEARE
Brown, Ivor (1964) Bardolatry, then and now. The Whitbread Magazine.
Christian, Garth (1964) Shakespeare as a Countryman. Country Life, April 23, 978-980.
Mulryne, Ronnie and Mairi Macdonald (2016) Skulduggery! How Shakespeare's skull was stolen and found. Friends of Shakespeare's Church, 52pp.
Piper, David (1964) Shakespeare's Changing Image. Country Life, April 30, 1054-1055.
PEOPLE
Fryde, Natalie M. (1971) John Stratford, Bishop of Winchester, and the Crown, 1323–30. Historical Research, 44(110), 153-161.
Gepp, C.G. (1894) A short Memoir of Emily Minet. Rivington, Percival and Co, London, 95pp.
MacDonald, Sandra A. (2021) J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Charles Edward Flower and the Shakespeare Autotypes Controversy. Warwickshire History, 18(4), 169-191.
McFarland, Patricia (1971) William Wells Quatremain, a Stratford Artist. Warwickshire History, 1(6), 25-31.
Shelley, Henry C. (1916) The Pictorial History of Shakespeare's Birthplace. The Connoisseur, 203-209.
RAILWAYS
Barrie, D.S. (1933) The Stratford and Midland Junction Railway. The Railway Magazine, Vol. LXXII, No. 430, April, 235-242
Beacock, D.A. (1956) On the S.M.J. by Freight Train. The Railway Magazine, April, 227-230
Copsey, John (2004) Operations at Stratford-upon-Avon, Part 1. Great Western Railway Journal, Vol. 7, No. 52, 182-222.
Harrison, W.M. (1935) The Stratford and Moreton Railway. The Railway Magazine, Vol. LXXVI, No. 452, February, 113-118
Hudson, Robert (1890) The Story of the Stratford and Moreton Tramway. Typed manuscript, 12pp.
Turner, Chris (2005) Operations at Stratford-upon-Avon, Part 2. Great Western Railway Journal, Vol. 7, No. 53, 285-296.